Improvement in machines for sowing seed broadcast



E. F. BERRY;

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EDWARD F. BERRY, OF HUDSON, NEWr HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR'SOWING SEED BROADCAST.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,274, dated February 19, 1856.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. BERRY, of Hudson, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Acting Cultivators; and I hereby declare that the following specification, in connection with the accompanying drawings and references'thereon, constitutes a lucid, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same.

In referringto the drawings, Figure l denotes a plan or top view, Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a transverse and vertical section on lines A B, Figs. l and 2. Fig.

4 denotes a transverse and vertical section on lines C D, Figs. l and 2.

Invention-The nature of my invention conssts of my improved cultivator, so constructed as to penetrate and loosen the soil sufficient to receive the seed vand to sow the seed broadcast thereon, and afterward properly cover the seed, all by once passing over the ground, as will be hereinafter seen. i

O0nstructi0mTo enable persons skilled in in the art to which my invention appertains t0 construct and carry out the same, I will describe it as follows:

I construct a frame of wood, (seen at A A in the drawings.) To the under side of this frame I suspend the cylinder-shaftD2in proper metal boxes, which are secured to the under side of the frame A A. To this shaftI secure the cylinder B, which is nearest the bevel-gear U, and the other cylinder B turns freely on the shaft D2, in order that the cultivator can turn the corners freely around the land when in operation. These cylinders are provided with a number of teeth, as seen at ad, Sac., for entering, tearing, and working the soil by the revolving of the cylinders B B and their forward movement, which rolls the ground and covers the seed after it has been pulverized and sown.

On the out end of the shaft D2, I tix a bevelgear, (seen at U,) into which ts the bevelgear T, which is nxed to the shaft S, so as to to turn in the stands C2 and B2. On the end of this shaft is placed the bevel-gear R, which gears into and operates or revolves the gear Q and revolving` forli G2 for cleaning` and removing the dirt or rubbish from between the teeth a a, 85o., of the cylinders B B as the machine is being used. This fork-shaft is suspended in the stands H2 H2, which are fastened to the under side of the frame A A.

I fasten a gear (seen at N2) to the opposite end of the forli-shaft from the gear Q. This gear N2 gears into and drives the intermediate gear, O, which gears into and drives the gear P, which is fixed to the perforated tube J2, and is revolved by the gears just mentioned from the driving-gear U, so as this tube will distribute the seed evenly the whole length of the lower portion of the perforated sowing-cylinder D, in order that the grain or seed may be sown evenly broadcast over the soil. The tube J2 is made largest in the middle, so that the seed will slide along from the tubes H H, so that it will be sown or distributed even to the octagonal sowing-drum D, and by this in turn to the soil.

The octagonal drum, which is suspended in the stands N, may be made of wire-gauze or any equivalent material fixed to the heads O2 O2, with the size, shape, and number of meshes to suit the purpose desired. The octagon shape is given it to shake the grass-seed through the meshes as it turns. rThis drum is placed at the rear end of my cultivator, andis intended to sow grass-seed after the grain has been sown by the forward cylinder, C, which is constructed of perforated metal plate or other desired substance, with size, shape, and number of meshes and holes as desired. This perforated metal is xed to the metal heads L2 L2.

The central tube or shaft, I2, is enlarged at its center for the more equal distribution of the seed to the outside cylinder as it enters the tube I2 through the tubes II, which lead from the hoppers G G to each. end ot' this tube, through which the grain passes for sowing.

The cylinder C is rotated as the horses which are hitched to the cultivator, guided by the pole F2 by means of the bevel-gear V, which gears into and is driven by the drivinggear U, the gear V being firmly fixed to the shaft IV, which revolves in the stands A2 and Z, this shaft having on its end the bevel-gearX, which gears into and drives the bevel-gear Y, which is attached to the tube I2 to revolve it with the outside cylinder, O, to which itis connected by the heads L2 L2.

Between the hoppers G G, I construct a seat for the driver. (Seen at E2.) At K2 K2 can be seen a regulating-slide, which may be moved to let more or less seed into the sowing-cylinder C. The same arrangementof slides (seen at M2 M2) in the hopper F are for the sanne purpose-that is, of letting in more or less grain or seed to the octagonal drum D.

Portions of the tubeE incase the sowing Octagon drum D. rlhe tube reaches down v nearly to the ground to prevent the grass-seed from being blown or wafted away by the wind.

Usa-All that is necessary to use my ma- 'chine or eultivator is to put sufficient grain into the forward hoppers and grass-seed into the rear one and attach the team-to the cultivators and drive over the ground which itis desired to cultivate, the teeth et ce, Ste., entering the soil their full length, and by their peculiar shape and forward movement and revolving of the cylinders B B the earth is separated, turned over, and pulverized, and carrying the seed just previously sown on lthe ground under EDWARD F. BERRY.

Witnesses:

E. W. SCOTT; Tnos. F. DEwHURsT. 

